Violation

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Ravishment; rape; outrage.

II. Violation ·noun Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.

III. Violation ·noun The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.

IV. Violation ·noun Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, ·etc.

V. Violation ·noun An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.